As a knitter I can honestly say I have no idea how she's doing that, unless she's only knitting the front & will knit the back later, then seam everything together?? Seems like a crazy way to knit it though.

I don't care what kind of day I've had (phone triage for an internal med doc), I can always count on you to make me laugh! Seriously...every time I think you can't possibly top the last story, you get some wackadoo like this one!

Did she have one needle or two? This sounds more like she was crocheting it than knitting it... If she were knitting, one of the needles would have had to have still been in the sweater. With crocheting, she would just have had one needle.

Did she have one needle or two? This sounds more like she was crocheting it than knitting it... If she were knitting, one of the needles would have had to have still been in the sweater. With crocheting, she would just have had one needle.

Amazing. One of my seminary classmates used to knit lace-pattern shawls. Without using a pattern. During theology classes. It was quite intimidating especially since she could pause momentarily to ask cogent questions and never took a note.

Wow. I'm a knitter, and I'm having a hard time picturing how you would do this. As you knit, the yarn moves off one needle, and on to the other, then you switch the needles to the opposite hands and repeat. How do you do this with the sweater on your body? Never mind why...

I'm also a knitter, and hard core as someone else said... I'll knit anywhere and everywhere when I'm able to focus on it or working on something simple.

I am also baffled by this. Even if she has mastered the fine art of knitting backwards (people use it for a fancy kind of knitting called entrelac) the logistics of knitting a garment while you are wearing it are really hard to imagine.

While it may have looked odd, I suspect you may have witnessed a uniquely talented knitter who has developed a technique for assuring that her sweaters actually fit her perfectly when she is done knitting them! Amazingly smart people (ahem... Albert Einstein?) often also look (are) a little insane.

My mom crochets and knits clothing, (mostly hats, and baby clothes) which she sells, and donates the profits to charity -$2000 now and counting. She has never worn something while making it, unless you count the large blankets she's made. She also would never go to her husband's medical appointments, either; she wouldn't consider it any of her business.

(If you have any Jewish grandparents you probably ran across this at some point. This was my great-grandmother's belief: if someone sews a garment while you're wearing it, you have to chew on a piece of thread. This is to show you're alive, because they sew the shrouds on dead people, so if you're chewing something they won't think you're dead and take you out and bury you. Something like that, anyway. I do it to this day, just to make her happy. Never mind that she's been gone since before I was born, I still do it.)

I learned how to knit from my Memere at 11 or 12 but keeping track of where I am in a row makes me crazy. Crocheting is something I can do without going nuts, but I have to have the instructions in front of me and do nothing else, not even conversations, so I crochet alone, not even a radio. There are folks like us that require everything we got to focus on repetitive tasks. For the longest time I could not understand how other people could do things like that in the presence of others. It gives me some insight into ADHD.

So the arms were done, attached to the collar, right? If she picked up stitches from under one arm across the collar to under the other arm, and knit back and forth for the front of the sweater she could knit the front part down to where she wanted it. Then she could take it off and knit the back down to the bottom and seam up the sides. It would ensure a good fit, but would be a pain in the rear to do, I think.

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